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Entry 9 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Claim

/(klām)/ · IPA /kleɪm/
01 v. t. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
imp. & p. p. Claimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming
  1. 1.
    To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
  2. 2.
    To proclaim.[Obs.]
  3. 3.
    To call or name.[Obs.]
  4. 4.
    To assert; to maintain.[Colloq.]
02 v. i. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  1. 1.
    To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
    “We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.” — Locke.
03 n. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
  1. 1.
    A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
  2. 2.
    A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
  3. 3.
    The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.[U.S. & Australia]
  4. 4.
    A loud call.[Obs.]
Phrases & compounds
To lay claim to — to demand as a right.